Forty years of Meteosat22 November 2017
ESA’s first Earth observation satellite was launched on 23 November 1977. When the first Meteosat satellite took its place in the sky, it completed coverage of the whole globe from geostationary orbit and laid the foundations for European and world co...

Anniversary of the launch of Cassini-Huygens 13 October 2017
On 15 October 1997, the skies over Florida were illuminated by the fiery exhaust of a Titan IV-B/Centaur rocket. This launch was the start of the most ambitious effort in planetary space exploration ever mounted: the international Cassini-Huygens miss...

Sputnik – 60 years of the space age03 October 2017
Sixty years ago, the first ‘beep-beep’ signal from Sputnik was heard from the heavens on the night of 4 October 1957, marking the beginning of a new era for humankind.

Cassini concludes pioneering mission at Saturn15 September 2017
The international Cassini mission has concluded its remarkable exploration of the Saturnian system in spectacular style, by plunging into the gas planet’s atmosphere.